CV
My full CV, updated with every new publication, is available as a PDF.
Awards
- 2026 Best Graduate Teaching Award, Pennsylvania State University Department of Political Science
- 2025 Raymond Lombra Award for Distinction in the Social or Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University
- 2023 Best Book Award, honorable mention, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association. Awarded in recognition of Inferential Network Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2021 (co-authored with Skyler Cranmer and Jason Morgan)
- 2015 Jack Walker Award. Recognizes an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. Awarded by the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. Co-winner with Michael Kowal and Ray La Raja for, “The Fates of Challengers in US House Elections: The Role of Extended Party Networks in Supporting Candidates and Shaping Electoral Outcomes.” Published in the American Journal of Political Science, 2015
- Best Conference Paper on Political Networks, 2013. Awarded by the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association. Co-winner with Jeffrey J. Harden and Frederick J. Boehmke for, “Inferring Policy Diffusion Networks in the American States.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, University of Virginia, 2013
- Fellow for the Program on Computational Methods for the Social Sciences, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Fall 2013. etaremune